Central American migrants seek asylum

Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP

A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants sleeps at a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29, 2018. U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months.

A member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29, 2018.

After a rally was held among their supporters, about 200 Central American migrants planned an attempt to request asylum in the United States on April 29, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico, and on the U.S. side near San Diego.